2025-26 Scottish Cup, Round One

Ancient rivals Auchinleck Talbot and Cumnock Juniors have their home grounds about three miles apart in East Ayrshire. Both clubs are members of the West of Scotland League Premier Division. They met in last year’s Scottish Junior Cup, Round One, and also last night in the senior Scottish Cup, Round One.

Morton host Ross County. Morton are eighth in the Championship with 6 points, Ross County ninth with 3.

Morton’s Eamonn Brophy played for Ross County from 2023 to 2025. Ross County’s Jamie Lindsay played for Morton in 2016-17. Pessimistic Staggies supporters at Pie and Bovril have been debating how many goals Brophy will score today — one or three.

The last Morton player to score against Ross County was George Oakley, July 22nd, 2023.

Late breaking: Morton have signed Aaron Lyall on loan from Ross County. Lyall played for Morton last season. He’s barred from playing against the Staggies today.

[Morton 1 – 1 Ross County. Goal by Cammy Blues.]

The other Championship matches:
Airdrieonians 1 – 2 St Johnstone (September 23)
Dunfermline Athletic 0 – 1 Ayr United (September 23)
Ayr United [4 – 2] Airdrieonians
Dunfermline Athletic [0 – 2] Partick Thistle
Queen’s Park [1 – 2] St Johnstone
QP and St Johnstone last played in the same division in 1988.
Raith Rovers [3 – 0] Arbroath

Other matches:
Dundalk 3 – 2 UCD (yesterday)
Mito HollyHock [2 – 0] Fujieda MYFC (tomorrow)
Okinawa SV [5 – 1] Grulla Morioka
Sfida Setagaya [1 – 2] Harima Albion
Meshtakhe [0 – 1] Merani Martvili
VfL Bochum [0 – 1] Fortuna Dusseldorf
Alness United [1 – 0] Golspie Sutherland
Largs Thistle 2 – 2 Beith (yesterday) Largs Thistle have installed floodlights.
Larkhall Thistle [1 – 3] Greenock
Kello Rovers [0 – 1] Port Glasgow
Halifax Tides [1 – 1] Vancouver Rise [Halifax goal by Clegg.]
JEF United [2 – 1] Elfen Saitama
Morton Women [1 – 2] Rossvale (tomorrow)
Vancouver FC [3 – 1] HFX Wanderers (tomorrow) [HFX goal by Meilleur-Giguère.]
The CanPL is set to add a team in Laval next season, FC Supra du Québec. There was an FC Supra de Montréal in the old Canadian Soccer League from 1988 till 1992.

Scottish Challenge Cup, league phase, matchday four:
Dumbarton 3 – 3 Kelty Hearts (September 23)
Dumbarton appeared in six Scottish Cup finals in the 19th Century.

Scottish Cup, Round One:
Auchinleck Talbot (WP) 2 – 1 Cumnock (WP) (yesterday)
Cumbernauld Colts (LL) 4 – 0 Glasgow University (W3) (yesterday)
Bo’ness United (LL) [0 – 3] Banks o’ Dee (HL)
Johnstone Burgh (WP) [4 – 0] Threave Rovers (W2)
Turriff United (HL) [2 – 1] Hill of Beath Hawthorn (EP)
Cowdenbeath (LL) [1 – 2] Benburb (W1) Upset
Huntly (HL) [1 – 3] Buckie Thistle (HL)
Tranent (LL) [3 – 0] Pollok (WP)
Newtongrange Star (EP) [1 – 3] East Stirlingshire (LL)
Jeanfield Swifts (EP) [0 – 4] Clydebank (LL)
Forres Mechanics (HL) [0 – 2] Caledonian Braves (LL)
Civil Service Strollers (LL) [2 – 3] Dundonald Bluebell (EP) Upset
Brora Rangers (HL) [0 – 1] Fraserburgh (HL)
Inverurie Loco Works (HL) [0 – 2] Sauchie (EP) Upset
Strathspey Thistle (HL) [1 – 2] Dundee North End (MP) Upset
Clachnacuddin (HL) [2 – 1] Kilwinning Rangers (WP)
Lochee United (MP) [1 – 3] Brechin City (HL)
Linlithgow Rose (LL) [2 – 1] Gala Fairydean Rovers (LL)
Musselburgh Athletic (EP) [2 – 0] Bonnyton Thistle (W2)
Camelon (EP) [2 – 1] Albion Rovers (LL) Upset
Coldstream (E2) [2 – 3] Tayport (MP)
Lossiemouth (HL) [1 – 2] Formartine United (HL)
Bonnyrigg Rose (LL) [2 – 1] Broxburn Athletic (LL)
Wick Academy (HL) [5 – 0] Rothes (HL)
Berwick Rangers (LL) [0 – 2] Nairn County (HL)
Glenafton Athletic (WP) [3 – 2] Invergordon (NC)
Darvel (W1) [1 – 3] Deveronvale (HL)
Carluke Rovers (W4) [0 – 4] Gretna 2008 (LL)
Bo’ness Athletic (EP) [2 – 1] Keith (HL) Upset
University of Stirling (LL) [6 – 2] Burntisland Shipyard (E2) (September 29)

Scottish Junior Cup, Round Two:
Drumchapel United [1 – 1] Thornton Hibs [Drumchapel win on PK]
Dunipace [4 – 4] Muirkirk [Muirkirk win on PK]
East Craigie [3 – 0] Dunbar United

Canadian Soccer League final (tomorrow):
Scarborough SC [1 – 0] Serbian White Eagles

2025-26 UEFA Europa League, league phase, matchday 1:
Red Star Belgrade 1 – 1 Celtic (September 24)
Rangers 0 – 1 Genk (September 25)

Women’s Rugby World Cup final:
Canada [13 – 33] England

Historical matches:
1890/9/27 Morton 3 – 2 Neilston (ScCup R2)
1952/9/27 Morton 5 – 3 Hamilton Academical
1980/9/27 Morton 1 – 2 Partick Thistle

Cup results of the 1890-91 SFL clubs:
1890/9/27 Hibs 1 – 9 Dumbarton (ScCup R2)
1890/9/27 Bridge of Allan 1 – 5 Vale of Leven (ScCup R2)
1890/9/27 Celtic 2 – 2 Carfin Shamrock (ScCup R2)
1890/9/27 St Mirren 5 – 1 Albion Rovers (ScCup R2)
Third Lanark 8 – 1 Kilmarnock Athletic (ScCup R2)
1890/9/27 Abercorn 12 – 0 Cathcart (ScCup R2)
1890/9/27 Beith 2 – 4 Cambuslang (ScCup R2)

Ukai Gyokusen

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Ukai Gyokusen was one of Japan’s earliest photographers. He ran a photographic studio from 1860 or 1861 to 1867, specializing in portrait photography using the wet plate collodion method on glass plates. Several years before his death in 1887 he buried over two hundred of the plates in the ground beside his family burial plot. In 1956 the site was excavated and the photographs recovered. They were in bad shape. BBC.

Yasunari Kawabata’s novel Beauty and Sadness came out in serialized form from 1961 to 1963. In the chapter “Strands of Black Hair” the characters discuss the opening of the tomb of the young wife of the 14th shogun, Princess Kazunomiya, who died in 1877. A glass photograph was found on the body, containing the image of a young nobleman. But within a day the image had faded completely from exposure to the air and light. Kawabata’s characters speculate about the identity of the courtier — husband or lover? — and are struck by this example of the fleeting nature of human life.

You might think that Kawabata took the 1956 discovery of the two hundred plates and transformed it into the story of the princess, but in fact the excavation of her tomb and the discovery of the fading image really happened in 1950. Source.

I don’t know if Ukai Gyokusen is thought to be the photographer who created the princess’s keepsake. But if indeed it was a picture of her husband, Ukai was in the right town (Edo) at the right time (Kazunomiya and Tokagawa Iemochi were married from 1862 until 1866).